Party Like It's Your...Birthday? - Thursday July 3, 2008

Because I'm so far behind...again...I'm basing the dates off of remembering Friday was July 4th.

It's my second to my last Thursday of teaching. It was...ok. My class that has been the opposite of good the entire semester, once again proved themselves to be tiny terrorists. The target? My job. The Vice Principal came in today with about 5 or 6 other un-named VIPs, and my kids acted like they had never been inside a classroom before. Eh...oh well. I supposed they can't fire me a day before my last day of classes. ^_~ It wasn't really all that bad, but it was enough to make me pretty satisfied that it was the last day of classes with that particular class of students.

After school, I hung around until it was time to head to dinner with the teachers. I left with Yeon Ohk, and again we were the first to get to the restaurant. It's a common trend for us. We hung out for a while before the rest of the teachers got there. They took me to a Japanese restaurant!!! I was so excited! Sashimi, sushi, random things with tiny fish eggs...it was spectacular! I'm slowly starting to enjoy the squishy little fish eggs. It took me living in two Asian countries to finally accept them as part of a meal. I'm still working my way up to salmon eggs...it'll take a bit more to appreciate those.

When you go to a nice restaurant in Korea, you get loads of food! It comes out continuously. There is no stopping. Just more and more and more food. By the time we were done eating, we were all stuffed. So, we went to a cafe instead of going out for a drink. 1-1 teacher and I had wine anyway at the cafe. It was super dry red wine, but I still loved it. I think I love all wine.^^ After the cafe, 1-6 had to meet some guy and 1-4 had to drive her. 1-4 didn't want to leave, but she had to. I think a large portion of 1-6's (Jae Rim's) revolves around guys. After they left, we went to Munchen, a German bar where you drink beer from ice cups and then throw them at a target. This was my third time being there. I just went with Ray on Monday, but then I actually got a free beer. This time, I was horrible. All my beer was free anyway though because I was out with the teachers. Yeon Ohk and I were joking around most of the time...she proposed to me with a fruit loop like bar snack. I said, "I do" of course.^^ After that bar, everyone went home but 1-5 (Yeon Ohk) and I decided to go to the hookah bar (Aqua Vitae) that I had just been to on Sunday with Ethan. She had never tried hookah, so I took her there. It wasn't very strong this time, but that was ok. Yeon Ohk had a good conversation despite me having drank too much. Who knew that my best friend in Korea would turn out to be a 39 year old teacher?! Haha! It'll be hard not being at the same school next year. Really hard.

After the hookah bar, Yeon Ohk took me home. I think it was around 11:30PM at that point. I had had to cancel my guitar lesson which I felt bad about since it was twice that week. The first time was when Ray came...the second being because I was out with the teachers.

Anyway...drinking plus hookah makes for a very tired Stacey.

Peace out.